Police sting nets runaways

UPDATE 1.15pm: THE driver of a stolen Ford Falcon arrested yesterday has been released from police custody and put under a curfew with his co-offender.

Police deployed stingers during the chase and the pursuit came to an end at 2pm yesterday afternoon when the car hit a stinger on Lower Dawson Road.

Detective Sergeant Nick Williams said the 17-year-old male driver had been charged with two counts of evading police, two of dangerous driving, five counts of stealing and one each of unlawful use of a motor vehicle and being an unlicensed driver.

His co-offender, also 17, has been charged with one count of unlawful use of a motor vehicle and three of stealing.

Both were granted bail yesterday and must report to police daily with a residential curfew between 7pm and 7am.

Police deployed stingers during the chase and the pursuit came to an end at 2pm yesterday afternoon when the car hit a stinger on Lower Dawson Road.

Detective Sergeant Nick Williams said the male driver had been charged with two counts of evading police, two of dangerous driving, five counts of stealing and one each of unlawful use of a motor vehicle and being an unlicensed driver.

He is due to appear in Rockhampton Magistrates Court today.

EARLIER: AS the tyres disintegrated with rubber and smoke flying from the rims, the stolen car came to a halt near McDonald's.

Three teenagers fled from the red Ford Falcon, but were quickly arrested by swarming police after a dramatic end to a highway pursuit yesterday.